World English Bible · Egypt and Sinai
Numbers 27
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Then the daughters of , the son of , the son of , the son of , the son of , of the families of the son of came near. These are the names of his daughters: , , , , and . They stood before , before the priest, and before the princes and all , at the door of the , saying, " in . He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against in the company of , but he in his own . He had no sons. Why should the name of be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of ." brought their cause before . spoke to , saying, "The daughters of speak right. You shall surely give them a possession of an among their brothers. You shall cause the of their to pass to them. 8You shall speak to the , saying, 'If a man dies, and has no son, then you shall cause his to pass to his daughter. 9If he has no daughter, then you shall give his to his brothers. 10If he has no brothers, then you shall give his to his brothers. If his has no brothers, then you shall give his to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a and for the , as commanded .'" said to , "Go up into this mountain of , and see the land which I have given to the . When you have seen it, you also shall be gathered to your people, as your brother was gathered; because in the strife of , you rebelled against my word in of , to me as at the waters before their eyes." (These are the waters of of in of .) 15 spoke to , saying, "Let , the of the spirits of , appoint a man over , who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in, that of may not be as sheep which have no ." said to , "Take the son of , a man in whom is , and lay your hand on him. Set him before the priest, and before all ; and commission him in their sight. You shall give to him, that all of the may . He shall stand before the priest, who shall inquire for him by the of the before . At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the with him, even all ." 22 did as commanded him. He took , and set him before the priest and before all . He on him and commissioned him, as spoke by .
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The world at this moment · Egypt and Sinai, 1450 BC to 1200 BC ›
Israel in and then out of Egypt, at a period when Egypt was an imperial power that also controlled Canaan. The nation is formed as a people with a law before it has any land.
- Egypt
- The New Kingdom at its imperial peak, with a professional army, a chariot corps, and control reaching up through Canaan. Ramesses II reigns for sixty-six years and covers the country in monuments to himself. Egyptian power in this period is the reason Canaan is garrisoned rather than free.
- The Hittites
- The other superpower, in what is now Turkey, and Egypt's rival for the Levant. The two fight the largest chariot battle of the ancient world at Kadesh, then sign a treaty whose text survives from both sides. Hittite treaty form, with its historical prologue, stipulations, witnesses, blessings, and curses, is the shape the Sinai covenant takes, which is one of the stronger arguments for the antiquity of that material.
- The Aegean
- Mycenaean Greece: warrior kings in stone citadels at Mycenae and Pylos, keeping palace accounts in Linear B. The world of the Trojan War stories, whatever lies behind them.
- Further afield
- The Shang dynasty in China is casting extraordinary bronzes and writing questions to its ancestors on ox bones. In Mesoamerica the Olmec are beginning the first civilisation of the Americas.